Stock market

Stock market

Stock Exchange

A place, whether physical or electronic, where stocks, bonds, and/or derivatives in listed companies are bought and sold. A stock exchange may be a private company, a non-profit, or a publicly-traded company (some exchanges have shares that trade on their own floors). A stock exchange provides a regulated place where brokers and companies may meet in order to make investments on neutral ground. The concept traces its roots back to medieval France and the Low Countries, where agricultural goods were traded for cash or debt. Most countries have a main exchange and many also have smaller, regional exchanges. A stock exchange is also called a bourse or simply an exchange.

Stock market.

A stock market may be a physical place, sometimes known as a stock exchange, where brokers gather to buy and sell stocks and other securities.

The term is also used more broadly to include electronic trading that takes place over computer and telephone lines. In fact, in many markets around the world, all stock trading is handled electronically.

stock market

a MARKET that deals in the buying and selling of company stocks and shares and government bonds. See STOCK EXCHANGE for further details.

As usual, the hospitality suites will be spread among the hotel's four towers (Tresor, Sorrento, Chateau and Versailles), the market floor will house the stands, while the cabanas will predictably be used as a meeting place in order to avoid the wait at the elevator banks, which is much improved since the first year in Miami in 2011, but is still congested, especially at the Tresor Tower.

Traders have set-up a Spin It To Win It wheel in the centre of the market floor and will be giving away prizes throughout the week, resulting in one lucky winner walking away with a cheque for pounds 500 and vouchers for the market to the tune of pounds 500.

When the screenings started at NATPE Europe (originally the market was called DISCOP and later NATPE Budapest), some exhibiting indies resented the "intrusion," reasoning that the studios would syphon off buyers from the market floor, since the screenings were held outside the trade show facilities.

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